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chapter 1:history of respiratory care Questions and answers
respiratory care - answer also known as respiratory therapy is defined as the field that specializes in the promotion of optimal cardiopulmonary function and health.
respiratory therapist - answer also known as respiratory care practitioners apply the scientific principles prevent, identify, and treat acute or chronic dysfunction of the cardiopulmonary system. Respiratory care includes the assessment, treatment, management , control diagnostic evaluation, education, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of cardiopulmonary system. in addition, it involves the treatment of patients with chronic respiratory diseases, prevention and promote holistic health and well-being.
Hippocratic Corpus - answer known as the father of medicine and laid the foundation
of Western medicine in ancient Greece.
Hippocratic medicine - answer based on 4 essential fluids or humors- phlegm, blood,
yellow bile, black bile and the 4 elements earth, fire, water and air. Diseases were believed to be caused by a humoral imbalance of these essential substances.
Aristotle - answer 384-322BC, may have been the first biologist. he made many scientific observations especially on animals.
Erasistratus - answer 330-240BC, founder of science of physiology and developed a pneumatic theory of respiration in Alexandria, Egypt in which air 'pneuma' entered the lungs and was transferred to the heart.
Galen - answer 130-199AD, anatomist in Asia minor whose comprehensive work dominated medical thinking for centuries. Galen also believed that inspired air contained vital substance that somehow charged the blood through the heart.
golden age of Arabian medicine - answer 850-1050 AD
Magnus - answer a disciple of Aristotle and made many observations related to astronomy, botany, astronomy, zoology and physiology.
Da vinci - answer studied human anatomy, determined that sub-atmospheric interpleural pressures inflated the lungs, and observed that fire consumed a vital substance in air without which animals could not live without.

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